by Kate Birch | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro fiction both spare, both powerful. But while Sanah Ahsan’s ‘fresher’ is...
by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Creative thinking outside the box …describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective, ‘fiery imagery and subversion of religious tropes’, that it...
by Kate Birch | Jun 5, 2022 | Filmpoems
Royal Charters in 1600 and 1660 established the East India Company and the Royal African Company and between them these two bodies probably wrought more misery and devastation in Asia and Africa than any other institutions. The East Indian Company went...
by Kate Birch | Jun 4, 2022 | Word & Image
Forgotten journey of the enslaved Tasia Graham © Reclamations by Momtaza Mehri No longer child No longer Monday’s firstborn No longer carrying the day’s exultations No longer embraced by broad-leaved belt of forest No longer at the lush edge of the edge...
by Kate Birch | May 21, 2022 | News
Poem for Grant my body is no place to be stuck in (Grant Tarbard: A Rosary of Ghosts) Each time you went away, you brought back news – how it was to look down at yourself – perfect accounts of the soul’s own grief. When you left for the last time your body was...
